Sahntanyna Blackwell , LMHC, LPC

Sahntanyna Blackwell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in New Jersey and focuses on relationship and family concerns, women's issues, mood disorders, and behavior challenges. Her approach is grounded in direct, supportive conversation that helps people take practical steps forward.

Sahntanyna uses a blend of approaches to meet each person's needs. She draws on client-centered listening to understand what matters most to the person in front of her. She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and introduce small, manageable changes.

Her work often addresses intimacy and communication problems, family conflict, self-esteem, grief, and life transitions. She also supports people facing addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD with focused strategies to cope and improve daily functioning. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and fertility or fatherhood-related worries.

Sessions aim for practical skill building alongside space to process emotions. She helps clients practice clearer communication, set healthier boundaries, and rebuild trust where it has been damaged. The process is described plainly and paced to match what each person can manage.

Sahntanyna welcomes collaboration and tailors plans to individual goals. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady encouragement as people work toward greater confidence and more stable relationships.

Practical approaches you can use online

Client-Centered Therapy places the person's concerns at the center of each session. The therapist listens without judgement, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more useful habits; it is often used for mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then tailor a plan that mixes methods to fit those needs. This work is done together, with regular check-ins to adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when in-person visits are difficult.